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Extraction of abstract invariants. All of these figures may be categorized as “squares”, but none would activate a largely overlapping population of cells in visual cortex. What is the same about all of these figures is an abstract relation. Whatever is used to define a side, the sides are approximately equal. Specific concrete encodings from which this relation is extracted are incidental to squareness.
